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Phys. Rev. E 52, 4924–4941 (1995)

Normal and anomalous scaling of the fourth-order correlation function of a randomly advected passive scalar

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M. Chertkov, G. Falkovich, I. Kolokolov, and V. Lebedev
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Universite di Milano, Istituto Nacional de Fisica Nucleare, via Celoria 16, Milano 20133, Italy
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Kosygina 2, 117940, Russia

Received 3 August 1995; published in the issue dated November 1995

For a δ-function-correlated velocity field, simultaneous correlation functions of a passive scalar satisfy closed equations. We analyze the equation for the four-point function. To describe a solution completely, one has to solve the matching problems at the scale of the source and at the diffusion scale. We solve both the matching problems and thus find the dependence of the four-point correlation function on the diffusion and pumping scale for large space dimensionality d. It is shown that anomalous scaling appears in the first order of 1/d perturbation theory. Anomalous dimensions are found analytically both for the scalar field and for its derivatives, in particular, for the dissipation field.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.52.4924
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.52.4924
PACS:
47.10.+g, 47.27.-i, 05.40.+j